I dont like dragging myself into dumb conversations. Especially since I learned all of that in high school biology,heck we probably learned it in 7th grade bio as well they were basically the same class after all. All I did to find out about the mutated gene was google "is red hair recessive" to double check if I was correct and it was literally part of the first answer.
I wont disagree that something is off about her, but I think that will be more personality or ethics wise, not heritage and hair color.
The thing is that I don't even know why everyone takes issue with the hair, but ignores everything else I've listed.
For example: Eto engages in cqc on all four of her Kakuja form's "legs", yet all of you ignore that point, and focus on the hair.
I don't know about you, but that sounds like a "dumb conversation", and to make sure I'm not contradicting myself I'll quote every post I've made here and highlight every other point I've brought up other than the hair.
here goes:
"one more thing I consider noteworthy is that in the last chapter (143) the contents of this page ( http://vatoto.com/read/_/272296/tokyo-ghoul_ch143_by_imperial-scans/11 ) you can see capsules with the word (Owl) on them, I think this is the set up for part 2 as the protagonist for part 2 will probably be Amon, how do I know?
The l "ghoul investigators Have a more durable body compared to those of the ordinary" quote on the same page could mean that the people being used for the experiment are CCG members that have declared dead by the CCG ( http://vatoto.com/read/_/271406/tokyo-ghoul_ch142_by_anonymous/17 )
The text on this page of chapter 143 ( http://vatoto.com/read/_/272296/tokyo-ghoul_ch143_by_imperial-scans/18 ) are actually a hint to what part 2 of Tokyo Ghoul could be about.
"I want to [create] a much more depressing [story]" on this page ( http://vatoto.com/read/_/272296/tokyo-ghoul_ch143_by_imperial-scans/18 )
I give out three points of discussion, yet everyone focuses on one of those, if you disagree that's fine but don't regress when I ask you to elaborate on your stance.
I don't care if you agree or disagree, I want to know WHY you agree/disagree.
For those who are familiar with this form of inquiry, it was used by Socrates.
Continuing with my second post:
Above this her abilities as a one eyed ghoul are radically different to her fathers as she never even uses her Kakuho Kugan (a long range type of kugan similar to Kouka's) when she engaged the CCG.
She limits herself to cqc.
and doesn't she look a little young for a 20 something year old, if I had to wager a bet I would say that she is closer to Kanaki's age then she is to the 'real One Eyed owl"
The One Eyed Ghoul that Itori mentions that which could be Eto. ( Itori could very well be talking about Eto as her abilities as a one eyed ghoul are on a completely different scale when compared to every other ghoul, interestingly enough it seems that this One eyed ghoul was found by one of the kids in Uta's gang in the 4th district, another thing that I find interesting is that it's gender couldn't be identified by those who have seen it.
Just on that point, Kuzan placed his kid in the 24th district, if we assume that Eto is the real Owl then wouldn't she be around Yomo or Uta's age? If she is closer to kaneki's age then doesn't that mean that she is too young to be Kuzan's doughter?
On top of that this image ( http://vatoto.com/read/_/248481/tokyo-ghoul_v8_ch69_by_twisted-hel-scans/5 ) shows a one eyed owl with very similar abilities to those that Kuzan employs. *Edit that's actually Kuzan himself, so ignore this point.
The only reason that makes me doubt that Eto is his doughter is that the ( http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140808130149/tokyoghoul/images/6/6e/Owl1.jpg ) Owl in this image is radically different to ( when it comes to both hair length, color [and kind]) this one full body shot of Eto ( http://vatoto.com/read/_/271406/tokyo-ghoul_ch142_by_anonymous/15 )
The thing that gets me is if she does dye her hair then why? She is covered from both head to toe in her bandages when she goes around as Eto, so who is she hiding it from?
PS: Here is the only full body shot of the One Eyed owl in Kuzan's flash back that I could find ( http://vatoto.com/read/_/267859/tokyo-ghoul_v12_ch119--v2-_by_anonymous/14 )
I'm just trying to explain my reasoning to the best of my abilities.
If you would like, I could explain my points.
The One Eyed Ghoul that the kid in Uta's gang finds in the fourth district is a young child, that probably is Eto because its younger than Uta at that time, yet no one discusses this.
Third post
http://vatoto.com/read/_/220264/tokyo-ghoul_v4_ch34_by_twisted-hel-scans/13
Now in that page Itori, and Uta bring up a few things that are interesting to say the least:
Itori: Back in those days the eye witness reports were preposterous. It's not even certain whether it male or female. There was even a report that it was an old man wasn't there?
Uta: I heard that it was a small child. A child in my ward claimed to have seen it.
The old man that Itori heard about was Kuzan
The small child (at that time) was most likely Eto
The male one eyed Ghoul was Kuzan's kid 'real One Eyed Owl'
If two out of the three hints in that page were true, then couldn't the third?
Also if you look at Eto's hair [ notice that I do not say hair color but only her hair] , it doesn't resemble either Ukino, or Kuzan in the least.
Let's assume that Kuzan is her father, then who is her mother? Eto's hair is not only a different color, but a different 'kind of hair' (not curly, or straight (like Ukino and Kuzan but something different, I can't find the name for that specific kind of hair)
Now the interesting part, Kuzan can mimic the One Eyed Owl's exterior looks, and his (supposed) fighting style right?
So why do they look so different, they're supposed to look very similar to each other in their Kakuja form, but Eto looks nothing like Kuzan's Kakuja form.
In the previous page to of the linked chapter Itori says that the one Eyed ghoul she had heard about (Eto) had/has an enormous appetite which as you said could explain her radically different exterior to Kuzan, and you're right about that.
But ask yourself this, in chapter 34 three One Eyed ghouls are hinted at, two of them are confirmed later on (one of them being Kuzan in disguise) then would it really be that far fetched that the third one existed as well?
In Itori's conversation with Kaneki she refers to the one Eyed ghoul as 'him', Uta brings up a small child, Itori brings up an old man, so wouldn't the third be an adult in his mid 20's or early 30's because she doesn't feel the need to specify his age.
TL;DR I personally believe that the 'real One Eyed owl' is both Eto's father, and the One Eyed King.
I may be way off base here [ I'm admitting that this has a high probability of being wrong] , but I was able to predict that Kuzan wouldn't die in his encounter with the CCG, and that he was going to be used to create more artificial ghouls, so I do have a good deal of confidence in this one.
Also while I'm at it, who here thinks that a Manga like TG would be easy to predict?
Certainly not me, Eto's father not being Kuzan would be more of a surprise shock for the readers then her being his doughter even though she is supposed [ http://vatoto.com/read/_/267859/tokyo-ghoul_v12_ch119--v2-_by_anonymous/11 the child in that image has a very different kind of hair to Eto in this image [http://vatoto.com/read/_/271406/tokyo-ghoul_ch142_by_anonymous/16] have white semi curly hair (I think)
I only bring up this child's hair's specific kind, how does it change that drastically, I'm not referring to the color here.
now I can get to you
Finally commenting on this because this hair color conversation is becoming rather repetitive when it comes to arguing about where she got it from. Are you saying that people have to have the same hair color or similar hair color to their parents? Following that logic im not my parents kid because they have brown hair and mine is blond.
Nope, what I'm saying is that in a span of 20 or less years your hair can't naturally change from white,blond to red/brown, and that it is possibly a hint towards something, why are you focusing on the color?
Hair color is by no means a viable reason to say people are or are not related. And if we base this off actual genetics its possible she can have red or red/redborwn hair because it is a recessive gene with a mutation in the MC1R gene. If the father had black hair he could have had one dominant and on recessive gene, and white/bond hair has both genes recessive. So it is possible to have a child with both recessive genes and if the parent passed on the mutated gene it would result in red hair color.
In manga (as far as I can tell) the change of a characters hair is a visual depiction of either an external or internal transformation of some sort, so in that sense it is important, what internal/external transformation did Eto go through?
Kaneki's hair changed from black to white because of his exclusive torture session with Yamamori, it changed in order to show the internal change going on within Kaneki's mind which if my memory suits me right is that he now accepts his existence as a ghoul.
Sigh
Lurker from a while. I honestly only made an account just to say that peoples hair color CAN change over time. In real life too. As a kid I had dirty blonde hair and now it's dark brown'ish. Not enough with that Kaneki went from BLACK hair to WHITE and Arima has had a hair color change too. So the whole hair color not matching isn't really anything noteworthy.
That's something I would like to know more about, what can cause your hair to change colors from dirty blonde to darkish brown, do tell.
I do know that both age, and stress contribute to the natural change of hair from (insert hair color) to white.
The kid in this page http://vatoto.com/read/_/267859/tokyo-ghoul_v12_ch119--v2-_by_anonymous/11 has 'fluffy' hair, and the one in this image http://vatoto.com/read/_/271406/tokyo-ghoul_ch142_by_anonymous/16 doesn't.
That is the 'thing' I want to know about
If you can solve that, then congratulations
If you can't then don't worry about it.
If you find this thing to be annoying, then stop contributing to the (this posts) topic.
There you go.
Regards
Dibbs
PS: I'm still new here so I haven't gotten around multi-quoting prevision pages. so I just copied the posts here encase anyone asks.
PPS: I probably forgot to include some stuff so feel free to call me out on anything I may have forgotten if you think it's worth discussing, not if you disagree with it.